Archdiocese of Hobart in Hobart, Tasmania | Religious organisation

Archdiocese of Hobart

Locality: Hobart, Tasmania

Phone: +61 3 6208 6222

Address: 35 Tower Rd 7008 Hobart, TAS, Australia

Website: http://hobart.catholic.org.au/

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24.01.2022 "Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing." Happy feast day of St Therese of Lisieux, a Carmelite nun, a patron of missionaries, and a Doctor of the Church!

22.01.2022 Please join us for the livesteaming of Mass for the Solemnity of All Saints, tomorrow at 10.30am: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWUwOialI48

22.01.2022 Archbishop Julian has signed a decree rescinding a previous decree and dispensation from Sunday Mass obligation. https://hobart.catholic.org.au//obligation-to-attend-sund/

21.01.2022 Livestreaming of Mass from St Mary's Cathedral in Hobart, tomorrow at 10.30am. We invite you to join us online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlhL3bwrXhE

21.01.2022 Featuring news and faith from around Tasmania, the September issue of the Catholic Standard is available both in print and online. Click below for the latest issue.

21.01.2022 Happy feast day of the Archangels Sts Michael, Gabriel and Raphael!

20.01.2022 Tasmanian pallative medicine specialist Dr Helen Lord says that palliative care is able to ease underlying pain and distress, while fully respecting the value of a person's life. "Pain can be controlled. If the reasons for suffering and distress are understood they can be relieved. A good death can be enabled, and this leads to a better bereavement for families." Read the full article below.

19.01.2022 Please join us tomorrow for the livestreaming of Mass from St Mary's Cathedral in Hobart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ7Tn6oWoxY

19.01.2022 In the 1840’s, neo-Gothic designer Augustus Pugin designed 10 chalices specifically for use in Tasmania. Seven have survived.

19.01.2022 The collective wisdom of all successful cultures and societies tells us that the way to nurture compassion and sustain our universal belief in human dignity and equality is to maintain the prohibition on intentional killing, says Dr Brigid McKenna.

17.01.2022 The proposed Tasmanian legislation makes provision for assisted suicide to be extended to children.

16.01.2022 Happy feast day of St Isaac Jogues and St Jean de Brebeuf! Sts Isaac Jogues and Jean de Brébeuf are two of the most well-known of the eight companions who are honoured by the title, the ‘North American Martyrs’. This group of eight Jesuits, who lived and died among the native tribes of the Huron-Iroquois, were the first martyrs of North America. Four centuries after their death, their heroic lives still continue to inspire. St Jean de Brébeuf was born in 1593 in Normandy, Fra...nce. In 1625, the young Fr Jean was sent to the serve at the foundling missions of New France (Canada). Showing a gift for languages, he mastered the native Huron dialect, and wrote the first Huron-French dictionary and catechism. Called echon by the Indians, meaning one who carries his own weight, Fr Jean eventually converted and baptised over 7,000 people. In 1628, he returned to France for four years due to the harsh conditions of the missions. He begged to return, and landed on Canadian soil in 1633. In 1649, he and his companion St Gabriel Lalemant, were captured by the Iroquois, and brutally tortured for several hours before being killed. He had his tongue and lips cut out and his head covered in boiling water in mockery of baptism. Finally, his heart was cut out and consumed in an attempt to capture his bravery. As a reminder of his enormous sacrifice, the skull of St Jean is kept as a relic at the Hôtel-Dieu convent in Quebec to this day. It was during his return to France (1628-1633) that St Jean met the young Jesuit priest, Fr Isaac Jogues. Born in Orleans in 1607, St Jogues was inspired by the stories in the developing missions, and travelled with Fr Jogues on his return trip in 1633. In 1642, St Jogues was captured, alongside Huron converts and missionaries by an invading Iroquois tribe. After 13 months of torture including running the gauntlet, having burning coals poured over his body, and the piecemeal cutting of his fingers and thumbs Fr Jogues was able to escape with the help of Dutchman, Arent van Curler, and return to France. Declared a ‘living saint’ by Pope Urban VII, Fr Jogues was given a dispensation to offer Mass despite his mutilated hands (at the time, the Holy Eucharist was only allowed to be touched by the thumb and the forefinger of the priest). It was the first time in Church history this concession had been granted. After a brief visit to his mother, he wrote of his desire to return to the missions. His wish was granted, and he was killed by tomahawk on October 18, 1646 in an area which is now upstate New York. These heroic saints were canonised in 1930 by Pope Pius XI along with their companions, Sts John de Lalande, René Goupil, Anthony Daniel, Charles Garnier, Gabriel Lalemant, and Noel Chabanel. They are the patron saints of North America and co-patrons of Canada.

16.01.2022 The Archdiocese of Hobart’s annual Christmas event Carols on the Hill will be taking place this year with COVID safety measures in place https://hobart.catholic.org.au//carols-on-the-hill-to-cel/

16.01.2022 St Robert Bellarmine, whose feast day we celebrate today, was a cardinal, an advisor to Pope Clement VIII and the teacher and spiritual director of St Aloysius Gonzaga. St Robert preferred to live an austere life despite being a cardinal once donating the tapestries from his apartment to the poor, commenting that the walls won’t catch a cold.

15.01.2022 An essential characteristic of a Catholic education is growing in understanding of what it is to being fully human, argue Martin Tobin and Monique Hall.

13.01.2022 Join us tonight as we livestream the Solemn Ordination of Jessie Banez to the Sacred Order of Deacons from Church of the Holy Sprit, Sandy Bay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldfapRsrn4c

13.01.2022 Please join us tomorrow morning for the livestreaming of Mass from St Mary's Cathedral in Hobart.

12.01.2022 At five days old Joseph's organs were failing and his parents were given the choice of taking him home to die, or having palliative surgery. They chose hope. Now 18 years old and hoping to study nursing, his mother Anne says she fears the proposed assisted suicide legislation will undermine advances in palliative care.

11.01.2022 "Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs." St Francis de Sales. Happy feast of the Guardian Angels! "Be good. This will make your angel happy. When sorrows and misfortunes, physical or spiritual, afflict you, turn to your guardian angel with strong trust and he will help you." St John Bosco.

11.01.2022 Join us for Mass, livestreamed from St Mary's Cathedral in Hobart, tomorrow from at 10.30am: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPR2zJ--hug

08.01.2022 Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ. Happy feast day of that brilliant translator and saint (with a fiery temper) St Jerome!

07.01.2022 Tasmania’s proposed assisted suicide legislation is fatally flawed says Southern Cross Care board chair Stephen Shirley. Established by Catholic organisation Knights of the Southern Cross, Southern Cross Care is one of the largest aged care providers in the State. He said that if the bill passes, Southern Cross Care would at a minimum be seeking to conscientiously object to being involved in voluntary assisted dying as an organisation.... Every life has value. It has unique value, and that's the ethos that drives our organisation, said Mr Shirley. As soon as you start saying that people can take the choice of ending their own life at a time of their choosing, you are replacing an objective belief in the dignity and the worth of every individual with a subjective choice about that worth. Read the full article below.

07.01.2022 Today we remember and pray for those who have lost their lives during wartime in service of their country. Lest we forget.

06.01.2022 A St Anthony statue with a past has found a new home in one of Tasmania’s oldest churches.

04.01.2022 Will safeguards against coercion work when it comes to assisted suicide?

03.01.2022 For Sr John Mary, making her final vows last month was followed by feeling a deep love for working in Christ’s Kingdom, and for His children. It’s almost this wanting to give myself totally without cost. This desire to just imitate Him on the cross, where he just totally gave himself for man, for His Kingdom, so that everyone can enjoy that life with God. Sr John Mary Alimangohan SI, 26, made her final profession as a Sister of the Immaculata on the vigil of the Assumption,... August 14 at St Mary of the Cross Church in Ranelagh. She says religious life is such a privileged gift. It’s fulfilling because it's always what I've desired; that intimacy with Christ, being really close to him. To young people thinking about stepping out to discern a religious vocation, her advice is: You lose nothing. You gain everything, she said. It was hard but I chose to give up family, marriage, possessions life in the world for something greater it’s just like someone buying a treasure. Read the full article below.

02.01.2022 Archbishop Julian has written a Pastoral Letter entitled 'Honouring the Lord's Day'. Copies available from your parish this weekend, or you can read it online:

01.01.2022 The October issue of the Catholic Standard is available both in print and online, and features news and faith from around Tasmania. Click below for your free copy.

01.01.2022 Jessie Banez was ordained to the Diaconate last night at Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Sandy Bay. Congratulations Jessie! Photos: Tony Lomas.